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Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala

Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala was a Nepali politician and a prolific writer. He was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 1959 to 1960. He led the Nepali Congress, a social democratic political party.

Koirala was the first democratically elected and 22nd Prime Minister of Nepal. He held the office for 18 months before being deposed and imprisoned at the instruction of King Mahendra. The rest of his life was spent largely in prison or exile and in steadily deteriorating health.

Better known in Nepal as “B. P.,” the leader of the Nepali Congress Party that ousted the Ranas Koirala became Nepal’s first elected prime minister in 1959. Before this, however, he had already become quite well known for his writing, which he began while studying law in Darjeeling during the 1930s.

Sushila Koirala

Sushila Koirala was born in 1923 in Kapilvastu Municipality, Lumbini Province, Kingdom of Nepal. In 1936, she married B. P. Koirala, after the marriage she went to a school in Biratnagar, and later she studied at the Banaras Hindu University in Banaras.Koirala had also learned Bharatnatyam and Kathak – major forms of Indian classical dance. B. P. Koirala during his prison sentence in Hazaribagh placed a bet with his inmates, claiming that Sushila was the “most beautiful lady in the world”. Later in his autobiography, Atmabrittanta, he described her as “young and slim” and added that she survived kala-azar.

In 2007, she was honoured with the Gangadevi Chaudhari Memorial Honour for “her contribution in women empowerment and awareness”.